Tractor attachment hitch



Dec. 25, 1923,

C o. M. MARRIOTT ET AL TRACTOR ATTACHMENT HITCH 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet Filed March 5 INVENTORS.

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OSCAR El. MARRIOTT, WWI W. HUNT, AND ERNEST V. KERRY, OF URBANA, KLEIN 031$.

TRACTGR ATTAGHMENT HITCH.

Application filed March 5, 1921. Serial Il'o. 449,870.

T all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, Oscar M. NAnnrorr, EDWIN w. HUNT, and ERNnsT V. KIRBY, respectively, citizens of the United States,

and residents of Urbana, county of Champaign, and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Tractor Attachment Hitch; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like. parts.

lhis invention relates to a tractor attachment hitch.

The chief object of this invention is to provide a hitch for an attachment whereby the same may be associated with a tractor to be supported thereby and to be operated thereby, as well as propelled thereby.

The chief feature oi the invention consists in the flexibility of the supporting hitch, whereby the attachment is fiexibl supported upon the tractor, and the fiexibi ity of the power transmittin mechanism, whereby power will be transmitted from the tractor to the attachment at all times without interference, due to the flexible mounting of the attachment of thetractor. This invention enables the attachment, such as a harvester, husker or the like, to be lightened sutliciently to enable it to be readily drawn and propelled by a tractor.

The -full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan view of a tractor and an attachment supported thereby and adapted to be propelled and o erated thereby. Fig, 2 is an enlarged e evational View of a detail of the flexible support and is taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevational view of the flexible drivin connection and is taken on line 3-3 of 1g. 1 and in the direction of the arrows. I

In the drawings 10 indicates a tractor provided with the front axle means 11, the rear axle means 12' and the usual front as corn bushing-machine. it indicates suitable wheels 13 and usual rear wheels 14;. 15 indiframe means of the corn husking machine, and 17 indicates a supporting wheel as shown. Suitably secured to the attachment or corn husking machine is a pair of preferably transverse supporting members 18, which are adapted to support the attachment with the wheel 17. The su porting transverse .members 18 protrude mm the tractor and are flexibly supported thereby in thefollowing manor. Between the wheels 13 and 1t and extending longitudinally of the tractor is suitable bar means, which in the present instance is illustrated, see Fig. 2, as a channel 19, and said channel may be suitably ofiset as desired or necessary. The channel 19 is suitably supported by the front and rear axles 11 and 12 respectively. In the present instance said support consists of a bearing plate 21 positioned upon the axle, a plurality of U-bolts 22 which have their head portions 'seatable and bearable upon said plate 21 and the prong portions of which straddle the axle and extend into position and into association with a supporting plate 23. Said bolts and plate 23 are secured together in rigid relation by the nuts 24c or other suitable means such that the channel 19 will be rigidly secured to and suppormd by the axles 11 and 12. The transverse member 18 is flexibly supported by being hingedly supported upon the channel 19. The hinge support in the present instance comprises a bifurcated lug 25 which has a bolt portion 26 extending through the channel 19 upon which is secured a retaining nut 27. The bifurcated lug 25 provides the ear portions 28 adapted to receive one end of the transverse member 18, and said ears and said transverse member are secured together by suitable hinge means, such as the in 29. Thus, the transverse member 18 is hingedly supported upon the longitudinal till member 19 and in protruding relation thereto.

Reference will now be. had to Figs. 1 and 3 respectively. In order that power may be transmitted from the tractor to the attach.-

ment at all times without loss or variation, and in spite of the flexible connection between the attachment and the tractor, the following transmission mechanism is rovided. The tractor frame 10 is provided with an opening 30 through which access is had to a power takeod shaft 31 upon which is suitably secured a bevel gear 32. The

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the bevel gears 32, 37, 38, 39 and 40, the

last mentioned gear being supported u on the shaft 36. The drive shaft 41 is suita ly secured in the attachment. and associated therewith are a pair of mitre gears42, one

. of said gears being supported upon a shaft 43. Between the shaft 36 and the shaft 43 is a pair of universaljoints ll and 45. each being secured respectively to said shafts 36 and as. The universal joints are connected together by a splined connection which is slidable, as illustrated clearly in Fig. 3., Said splined and driving connection consists of a tubular shaft 46., an inner shaft 47 and spline means 48. Thus, power is adapted to be transmitted from the takeoff shaft 31 to the attachment shaft 41 through the yielding and flexible driving connection name-ea which will yield with the yielding movement of the attachment upon the tractor.

It will be understood that the invention above described may be applied in a variety of similar ways, to heavy duty machines for field work, such. as a corn binder, husker and harvester, or like machines wherein it is desired to operate them about. a field, theweight being so reduced as to render them more adaptable and flexible to use in connection with a tractor.

The invention claimed is:

A tractor attachment hitch for lateral sup-port from a self-propelled four Wheel In witness whereof, we have hereunto affixed our signatures.

OSCAR Mn MARRIOTT. EDWIN W. HUNT. n ERNEST V. KIRBY. 

